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Study Joyo Kanji on your iPhone with iKIC

Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 @ 4:55 am by harvey in Gadgets, Language, Media Views: 840

Yet another iPod Touch or iPhone App to help you learn Japanese has been released. This one was released my my former school, IUC Japan.

iKIC is available as a free limited download, and as a iKIC full paid version with more content. You can also purchase add-ons for the paid version that adds even more content.

iKIC FREE

IKIC PAID

iKIC stands for “i-Kanji in Context” The content from the app is taken from IUC’s very intense SKIP program that the students at IUC use every day to learn the Kanji.

The strong points of iKIC are that it includes 1,947 characters (given you upgrade to the full version) and it gives example sentences (most of the time) that gives context to help you understand how the vocabulary is used. The example sentences it gives are serious and sometimes pretty academic, so it’s good practice for advanced learners.

You can get audio files for the vocabulary and sentences as an add-on pack. I haven’t tried the upgrades beyond the basic paid version, but if it is like the SKIP program which is available at the school that this is based on it should be quality natural Japanese read by the teachers at the school.

Here are a ton of images that should explain what the app is all about.

Note, iKIC also has a simple quiz mode that works like a flashcard program where you grade yourself whether you guessed right or wrong.

iKIC information on IUC Webpage.

Here’s those download links again:

iKIC FREE

IKIC PAID

For more on IUC check out my IUC as an Advanced Student post.

Happy Kanji-ing!

Harvey